Challenging the rules of law
Subtitle: colonialism, criminology, and human rights in India
By: edited by Kalpana Kannabiran and Ranbir Singh.
Contributors: Kannabirān, Kalpana.; Singh, Ranbir.
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Delhi; Thousand Oaks
Language: eng
Number of pages: 495
ISBN-13: 9780761936657
Subjects: Criminal justice, Administration of -- India; Rule of law -- India -- History; Crime -- India -- History; Criminology -- India -- History; Criminal law -- India; Human rights -- India; India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947
Other titles: Challenging the rule of law
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Laws of metamorphosis : from nomad to offender / Meena Radhakrishna; title: Victims and villains : the construction of female criminality in colonial Calcutta / Sumanta Banerjee; title: "That despicable specimen of humanity" : policing of homosexuality in India / Arvind Narrain; title: Sexual assault and the law / Kalpana Kannabiran; title: Social exclusion and criminal law / S.R. Sankaran; title: Building a subaltern women's perspective / Jayshree P. Mangubhai & Aloysius Irudayam S.J.; title: Whose life is it anyway? Adivasi communities and entitlements to life / Seema Misra; title: Preserving wellness and personhood : a psychosocial approach to the child / Shekhar Seshadri and Kaveri I. Haritas; title: Penal strategies and political resistance in colonial and independent India / Ujjwal Kumar Singh; title: Communities, gender, and the border : a legal narrative on India's North East / Paula Banerjee; title: Parens Patriae : exercising patriarchal prerogative in Post-Partition India / Ritu Menon; title: Law and life in the state of nature : archiving stories from legal literacy / Abha Singhal Joshi; title: Revisiting impunity and criminality : of corruption, collusion, consequences, and victims / Vijay K. Nagaraj; title: Khap Panchayats in Haryana : sites of legal pluralism / K. S. Sangwan; title: Crimes, passion, and detachment : colonial foundations of rule of law / Ranabir Samaddar; title: Conspiracies of association : associational offences, associational freedoms, and the rule of law / K.G. Kannabiran; title: Of strong medicine and weak stomachs : the resort to enhanced punishment in criminal law in India / Bikram Jeet Batra; title: The contexts of criminology : a brief restatement / Kalpana Kannabiran.